Fukui

Weekday departures: 166/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 169/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:21 / 23:20

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (13)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 to 7 August 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Hapi Line Fukui, Hokuriku Shinkansen

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Katsuyama Eiheiji Line: no timetable data

• Hapi Line Fukui: Morita ⇄ Echizen-Hanando
• Hokuriku Shinkansen: Awaraonsen ⇄ Echizen-Takefu

Fukui Station, the prefectural capital's principal station, was opened on 15 July 1896 by the state railway as the terminus of the Hokuriku Line from Tsuruga, and became a through station the following year when the line was extended to Komatsu. The station building burned down in the Fukui air raid of 1945 and was half-destroyed by the Fukui earthquake of 1948. After the 1987 JNR breakup the station passed to JR West, and a new building and the "Prism Fukui" shopping mall opened on 18 April 2005. The section of Hokuriku Shinkansen viaduct around the station was structurally completed in February 2009. On 16 March 2024 the shinkansen was extended from Kanazawa to Tsuruga and the parallel conventional line was transferred to Hapi-Line Fukui; the renewed station mall "Kurufu Fukui Station" opened the same day.

The shinkansen station is unusually compact for a prefectural capital: a single 312-metre island platform serving just two tracks, with no through or passing tracks — a layout said to be very rare among shinkansen stations nationwide. A Japanese National Railways-era plan had called for two island platforms and four tracks on a third level above the conventional line, but it was cut back to one platform and two tracks after criticism that it was over-provisioned. A later scheme to build the shinkansen on a third level above the station of Keifuku Electric Railroad, the predecessor of Echizen Railway, was in turn dropped in favour of the present second-level layout, apparently under the influence of the crisis over whether Keifuku's lines would survive.